{"id":491800,"date":"2011-04-07T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=33257"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:49:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:49:50","slug":"speed-capital-of-the-world-record-days-at-daytona-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/speed-capital-of-the-world-record-days-at-daytona-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed Capital of the World – Record Days at Daytona Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Daytona is a name that has long been part of the speed racing history as early American-based land speed record attempts were undertaken on the beaches within a 20-minute drive of today\u2019s Daytona International Speedway. As stated in Speed on Sand<\/em>, written by William Tuthill, and published by the Daytona Beach Museum of Speed in 1969, \u201cThis area, encompassing Ormond and Daytona Beach, is the acknowledged speed capital of the world. Carried on today at Daytona International Speedway, that tradition was established over a period of six decades when the eyes of the world were focused on the stretch of sand extending from Ormond Beach to the Inlet.\u201d<\/p>\n

This stretch of sand became internationally renowned as perfect record-breaking territory, and every effort made to break previous land speed records at the beginning of the 20th century was seen as big news both in the USA and abroad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n